Key: Eb major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Fm
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I'll tell you of a fight me boys,
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Bb
Nottingham
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Ir ish captain, his name was
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Somerville
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With courage bold, did he control,
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he played his part full well
It was on the 8th of
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On board there came an order,
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a ranker far too way
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Bowing for the coast of
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There to cruise and not refuse
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against our dar ing foe
We had not sailed many lengths,
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Fm
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She been some lofty
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Frenchman,
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come a -bearing down so wide
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She hailed us in
French, me boys,
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and asked us from where we came
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London is our name
Oh pray, are you some man of war?
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Pray, what may you be?
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Oh, then replied our captain,
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oh then you soon shall see
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Since you're so stout, you shall give out,
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or else we will sink you
The first broadside we gave to them,
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it made them fall to wonder
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Then rigging and their mainmast came,
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a -rattlin' down like thunder
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We drove them to their quarter,
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they could no longer stay
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Our guns to draw, we made so sure,
we showed them
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British play
So now we've took that ship,
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me boys got speed, us fair wind
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That we might sail to
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if the heavens proved so kind
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We'll drink a health and to our captain
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Cm
No such warlike souls to him
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out of our flowing bow
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